Category Archives: tutorial

How To Grayscale and Image Using GIMP

Alright, here’s one of many tutorial you will find here at SysadmindayPH. This post is all about how to turn your colorful pictures and images into black and white, or grayscale using GIMP …Of course using GIMP! For those who do not know what GIMP is, is short GNU Image Manipulation Program. What’s GNU? It’s … Continue reading

How to Make your Computer Faster

No matter how you ask it, how to make your computer faster, or how to make computer faster, we all want the same thing.. to make more out of our computer. A number of people are asking, specially those folks not so familiar with computer or with technology in general – “how do i make … Continue reading

Solaris Kernel Patching Recommended Patch

Here’s another Kernel patching of Solaris. I know there are tons of this type of post in the internet but another reference for the one who needs it, is I guess ok. To be honest, this is the steps that really made me understood the steps and procedure and the concept behind the 10_Recommended patch … Continue reading

SSH Tectia: Setup Public-Key Authentication

A quick post on how to setup a public-key authentication on an SSH client server, product by SSH Tectia. Summary: User instruction on how to setup public-key authentication. In setting up the ssh public-key authentication between servers, local and remote, we have to generate the key pairs and transfer it to the remote/server. Client Side … Continue reading

getfacl and setfacl – Unix Access Control (acl) Tool

Today’s topic is all about Access List… For Unix and Unix-like system, the usual command to set the file permission is the ‘chmod’ command. However there are instances that we need more flexibility in giving access and control for files and folders. Get it? Access and Control? In this situation, there is a file utility … Continue reading

Free (Solaris) Virtualization for Dummies Ebook

I just want to share a link for those who are not subscribe to the official Sun Microsystems’ email newletter.. (what?! You’re not subscribed?!) Anyway, the link will forward you to a form where you need to fill up some personal information (it’s from Sun, so there will be no selling of email or spamming … Continue reading

Setting Up Custom Name Server at your Registrar

Just want to note here steps on how to setup your own custom name server from your registrar. In my case, I had to do it on GoDaddy. But of course there are tons of webpages out there that explains how to do it in different registrar.. on this post I just took the part … Continue reading

Replacing a Failed Disk in Solaris Mirror (SVM)

This one is about Solaris Volume Manager and all those meta commands you can think of.. (metadb, metadettach, metattach, metaclear etc)… Yesterday we had to replace a failed disk that belongs to a mirror. The disk is running in a Sparc Solaris 10 box. It’s a 72GB from Fujitsu c1t1d0           Soft Errors: 440 Hard Errors: … Continue reading

FireFTP | FireFox | Firefox Download | FireFox Tutorial

FireFTP is an FTP program that works within the Firefox Web browser. Well, Firefox is not actually a full-pledge program but a Firefox plugin or addon. The best thing about this ftp client is that it’s FREE! (Just like any other open source applications/software). If you’re not familiar with Firefox, it’s an open source web … Continue reading